Read full poem →Be kind, have pity, my own, my pretty, —
‘Good-bye, young man, good-bye.’
Dictionary Entry
A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
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Origin
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Common Phrases
much prettygood prettywell pretty. prettylittle prettysure pretty
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Poetry examples for “pretty”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Why must true lovers sigh?
Be kind, have pity, my own, my pretty,-
"Good-bye, young man, good-bye."
Read full poem →From her own sex should mercy find to-day!
You might have held the pretty head aside,
Peep'd in your fans, been serious thus, and cried--
Read full poem →When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.'
Read full poem →And one said smiling : “ Pretty were the sight
Tf our old halls could change their sex, and flaunt 140
Read full poem →And put out his hand to the bridle-rein.
"My pretty girl," quoth the fool, "take me up,
For to ride with you to the town I am fain."
Read full poem →Down the side of your face.
What a pretty, red line!
Tell the taverns that scar
Read full poem →Will he come, do you think? I am really so sorry for him.
They didn't give him my letter at Milan, I feel pretty certain.
You had told him Bellaggio. We didn't go to Bellaggio;
Read full poem →Handsome who handsome is, who handsome does is more so;
Pretty is all very pretty, it’s prettier far to be useful.
No, fair Lady Maria, I say not that; but I _will_ say,
Read full poem →as simple as I stand here: if my cousin die (as there’s
hope he will). I have a pretty living o’ my own too,
beside, hard by here.